APWH DATES TO KNOW

1095 AD

First Crusade

1206 AD

Chinggis Khan Begins Mongol Conquests

1258 AD

Mongols Sack Baghdad, End of Abbasid Caliphate

1271-1295 AD

Marco Polo's Travels

1279-1368 AD

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

1324 AD

Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage/Hajj

1325-1349 AD

Travels of Ibn Battuta

1347-1348 AD

Bubonic Plague in Europe

1368-1644 AD

Ming Dynasty

1405-1433 AD

Zheng He's Seven Voyages

1438 AD

Rise of Inca Empire

1453

Ottomans Capture Constantinople

1450's

Printing Press in Europe

c. 1480's

Height of Aztec Empire

1488

Dias Rounds Cape of Good Hope

1492

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

1502

1st African Slaves to Americas

1517

Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation

1519-1521

Cortez Conquered the Aztecs

1521-1523

Magellan Circumnavigates the Earth

1529

1st Unsuccessful Ottoman Siege of Vienna

1533

Pizarro Topples the Inca

1545

Discovery of Silver at Potosí

1571

Battle of Lepanto,

1st Manila Galleon

1588

Spanish Armada

1600

Battle of Sekigahara

1607

Founding of Jamestown

1618-1648

30 Years War

1644-1911

Qing Dynasty

1653

Cape Town Colony Founded

1683

2nd Unsuccessful Ottoman Siege of Vienna

1689

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

1756 - 1763

7 Years War (French and Indian War)

1767

Invention of the Spinning Jenny

1776

Declaration of Independence, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

1789

French Revolution Begins

1796

Jenner's Smallpox Vaccine

1804

Haitian Independence

1807

British Abolish Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

1807 - 1808

Janissary Revolt

1815

Congress of Vienna

1820's

Independence in Latin America

1825

Erie Canal Opens

1839

1st Opium War in China

1839 - 1878

Tanzimat Reforms

1848

Marx and Engles' The Communist Manifesto

1848 - 1849

European Revolutions

1853

Commodore Perry "Opens" Japan

1857

Sepoy Mutiny

1861

Russia "Frees" Serfs/Ends Serfdom

1861 - 1865

U.S. Civil War

1861 - 1870

Italian Unification

1863

U.S. Emancipation Proclamation

1869

Suez Canal Opens

1871

German Unification

1885

Berlin Conference

1893

New Zealand Grants Women Suffrage

1896

Battle of Adowa

1898

Spanish-American War

1899 - 1902

Boer War

1904 - 1905

Russo-Japanese War

1910 - 1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese Revolution

1914

Panama Canal Opened

1914 - 1918

World War I

1917 (February - March)

Russian Revolution (Czar Abdicates)

1917 (October - November)

Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)

1918

Armistice (End of WWI Fighting)

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1921 - 1922

Washington Naval Conference

1928

Kellogg-Briand Pact

1929

New York Stock Market Crash

1930

Salt March (Gandhi's)

1931

Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

1935

Italian Invasion of Ethiopia

1937

Japan Invades Rest of China (Rape of Nanking)

1939

German Blitzkrieg In Poland

1941

Pearl Harbor

1942 - 1943

Battle of Stalingrad

1944

Bretton Woods Conference

1945 (February)

Yalta Conference

1945 (July)

A-Bomb Tested

1945 (August)

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

1945 (September)

End of World War II

1947 (June)

Truman Doctrine

1947 (August)

Independence and Partition of India

1948

Birth of Israel

1948 - 1949

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

1949 (April)

NATO Founded

1949 (October)

Chinese Communist Revolution

1950 - 1953

Korean War

1954

Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu)

1955

Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned Nations)

1956 (February)

Khrushchev Begins De-Stalinization

1956 (Fall)

Suez Canal Crisis (Nasser Nationalizes)

1957

Sputnik

1959

1st Silicon Chip

1959

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

1961 - 1989 November

Berlin Wall